Re: sure would be nice if Perl had trace command built-in

2015-12-22 Thread Dermot
I tend to use Strawberry perl these days and would certainly recommend it. Regarding the file paths you mentioned, the double back slash is correct but also difficult to read. I change my windows scripts to use File::Spec paths whenever I have to revisit them. This makes paths portable and easy on

Re: sure would be nice if Perl had trace command built-in

2015-12-12 Thread Mike Flannigan
On 12/10/2015 5:40 AM, beginners-digest-h...@perl.org wrote: On Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 6:33 PM, Brock Wilcox wrote: >Give devel::trace or devel::tracemore a try:) Is it possible to install this from Active State repository without having an-up-date ActiveState Perl DevKit license? Thanks,

Re: sure would be nice if Perl had trace command built-in

2015-12-08 Thread Ken Slater
On Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 9:35 PM, Kenneth Wolcott wrote: > On Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 6:31 PM, Kenneth Wolcott > wrote: > > Hi; > > > > I've inherited a lot of Perl [mostly ActiveState] (and bash) scripts > > were the former writers and maintainers did not use "use strict" and > > "use warnings" and

Re: sure would be nice if Perl had trace command built-in

2015-12-07 Thread Kenneth Wolcott
On Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 6:41 PM, Brock Wilcox wrote: > I don't know. But I think that worst case you can just download the single > file from this library and add it to your application directly. It requires > no compilation or anything. > > https://metacpan.org/source/MJD/Devel-Trace-0.12/Trace.pm

Re: sure would be nice if Perl had trace command built-in

2015-12-07 Thread Brock Wilcox
I don't know. But I think that worst case you can just download the single file from this library and add it to your application directly. It requires no compilation or anything. https://metacpan.org/source/MJD/Devel-Trace-0.12/Trace.pm --Brock On Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 9:39 PM, Kenneth Wolcott wr

Re: sure would be nice if Perl had trace command built-in

2015-12-07 Thread Kenneth Wolcott
On Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 6:33 PM, Brock Wilcox wrote: > Give devel::trace or devel::tracemore a try :) Is it possible to install this from Active State repository without having an-up-date ActiveState Perl DevKit license? Thanks, Ken Wolcott -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.

Re: sure would be nice if Perl had trace command built-in

2015-12-07 Thread Kenneth Wolcott
On Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 6:31 PM, Kenneth Wolcott wrote: > Hi; > > I've inherited a lot of Perl [mostly ActiveState] (and bash) scripts > were the former writers and maintainers did not use "use strict" and > "use warnings" and have other "less than Best Practices". Most of the > scripts are exec

Re: sure would be nice if Perl had trace command built-in

2015-12-07 Thread Brock Wilcox
Give devel::trace or devel::tracemore a try :) On Dec 7, 2015 21:32, "Kenneth Wolcott" wrote: > Hi; > > I've inherited a lot of Perl [mostly ActiveState] (and bash) scripts > were the former writers and maintainers did not use "use strict" and > "use warnings" and have other "less than Best Pra

sure would be nice if Perl had trace command built-in

2015-12-07 Thread Kenneth Wolcott
Hi; I've inherited a lot of Perl [mostly ActiveState] (and bash) scripts were the former writers and maintainers did not use "use strict" and "use warnings" and have other "less than Best Practices". Most of the scripts are executed on Windows and some of them are executed on a Mac and some are